Father’s speech on December 21, 1986 at World Mission Center
Good morning, everyone. the topic of my message this morning is “The Ideal Home Church’.’ What is the Unification Church? As the word implies, it is those who go about unifying the churches. What is the purpose of unifying the churches? To unify the world.
The word “unification” means to lead. When you are talking about unification, you are putting yourself in the leader’s position. “Unification” in the Korean language is Tongil. Il means one and long means leading or controlling. Leading the way into oneness-that is unification. Leading the way into oneness centering upon what? God. Therefore, the Unification Church is an interfaith movement, unifying all churches, all religions, and all believing people into one. That scope enlarges to the unification of all the people of the world into oneness with God-one God, one humanity.
What is the core substance of unification? By what method can we make unification possible? Of course, through true love. When we talk about true love, we have to talk about both horizontal love and vertical love. This is what the Western world does not realize. Does humanity have a horizontal origin coming from below or does it come from above? Naturally, the origin comes from above, from the vertical.
GOD INITIATED LOVE
You are the only creature in God’s world able to say ‘T’ This shows that you are automatically vertically connected. You are born with a fundamental relationship to the origin, the beginning, the source of life. You come from your parents, your grandparents, and your great grandparents. If you go all the way back to the first ancestors of mankind, where are they from? They are from God. This is how we are all connected ultimately to the one God in heaven. True love is the love that existed from the very beginning between God and man. When Adam and Eve were born, God poured true love down upon them. God initiated the action and gave love to them first.
When a baby is born, it has no perception of the existence and love of the parents. However, the baby is already in an environment of the unconditional love of its father and mother. Babies grow and gradually come into an awareness of the parents’ existence and love, and this is how we too are supposed to become aware of the love of God. When we grow up we should come into the full realization of the love of God and become an embodiment of that love ourselves, able to give parental love to others.
The love of God comes down from heaven and the love of human beings goes up from earth. When these two loves collide in the center, where does the power of that impact go? It pushes out horizontally. It expands into horizontal love because vertical love has certain limits of distance.
Men are the plus side and women are the minus side. As men and women grow up individually to become recipients of the love of God, they form a horizontal line. Then they come closer and closer together to the point where they are united. Although men are the universal representatives of plus character and women are the universal representatives of minus character, the most important thing is that they both share a common destiny. When you say ”I;’ that represents men’s and women’s common destiny.
Take a look at men and women; their features are so different. One is like the North Pole, the other is like the South Pole. They are very far apart. A woman’s character is such that she is concerned with things that are very close to her. Women try to decorate their surroundings and themselves. Men are more visionary, looking at the future, the distant horizon; men plan life. Women like smaller things and men like larger things. Man is vertical, in God’s position, and woman is horizontal, in humanity’s position before God.
CREATION UNITES IN ONE POINT
When God created human beings, the strong vertical line of love was established first. Men and women are to mature and come together and unite at the central point. That’s the original design for the human family. The central point is an absolute one, not relative. All creatures universally want to meet in that central point and occupy that absolute place of value. All of creation is heading for one thing-they are trying to move toward the central point of God’s love.
Parents represent the love of God, and so all children want to get total love from their parents. They compete with each other in trying to receive the love of their mother and father. How much do we need such a relationship? It is an absolute necessity to us. This is our destiny-we are born to receive parental love and to ultimately become the recipient of the love of God.
When a little baby giggles and looks up at its mommy’s and daddy’s face, is that a sin? Is that abnormal or absurd? No. When a man and woman look at each other, giggling and laughing and touching each other, is that a sin? When this give and take happens between parents and children and between husband and wife, then God freely comes down and goes in and out of each one of those minds and hearts.
Human nature is such that people want to have total control over a thing. You want to step on it, bite it, and do everything to it. You want to grab it, hit it, put it in your pocket, and eat it up. Do you want to have that kind of total unity in love? Or do you want the kind of love that says, “Oh, yes, we love. We have some thread, some connection.” When you say you love someone, you have the natural desire to occupy him or her: “I want to occupy you totally, without leaving even one hair to go free’.’
When love is being exchanged, you don’t want to close your eyes. You want to open your eyes and drink in the full amount. Nobody wants a discount on love. Everybody wants to receive it at the full price. When the voice of love comes into your ears, your ears are more open to that voice than to any other sound in the universe. Your ear leans in that direction, doesn’t it? Even God’s big ear is listening, waiting for that sound of love. Only true love awakens all five senses of the body to the fullest degree. Human beings are containers made for love, so night and day and all four seasons of the year we are waiting for more and more love from our parents and from God.
GOD CAN’T ABANDON MAN
Divorce is becoming more and more commonplace in America today, but the most controversial part of divorce is deciding who will get the children. The wife will say, “I don’t care about my husband-I want to throw him out. But I don’t want to lose my children’.’ Why is that? Because you have an eternal vertical relationship with your child. He is bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh. Even if the husband and wife, the horizontal plus and minus, are separated, the vertical relationship between the parent and child can never be severed.
After bearing children, there is no greater crime than divorcing your spouse in front of your children. Children are there to receive love from their parents and return love to their parents, for an entire lifetime on earth and thereafter throughout all eternity. When the parents are separated, all five senses of the child are beset by grief and sadness. Nothing can remedy or relieve such sadness. It is almost as if God were abandoning Adam and Eve. If God abandoned Adam and Eve, He would be abandoning all the creatures of the universe, since Adam and Eve are the central point of the creation. If God denies the creation, that means that God is denying Himself. That is impossible even to think about. Therefore, we see that this eternal vertical connection can never change.
With this vertical love alone, however, you cannot have dominion over the creation. Vertical love has to be manifested or translated into horizontal love, like the spreading of a wing, encompassing all of creation under the wing of love.
Human beings are born in the indirect dominion of God, then grow by fulfilling their responsibility. Ultimately they come into the direct dominion of God. After a person has traveled this far, God will say, “Now, my son, my daughter, everything that is mine is yours. Everything I created is yours. Please take it and have dominion over it.”
The Principle teaches us that during our growth period -the indirect dominion of God-human responsibility is the key. Who can claim that they have completed that responsibility? Who can say, ‘Tm totally and absolutely united with God, and nothing can separate me from Him anymore”?
When the absolute vertical relationship is established, then you can move on to the horizontal. As much as God and men cannot be separated, the horizontal relationship between men and women cannot be separated. The Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven is when men and women fulfill their responsibility, reaching the perfection level of their relationship to God. Men will find a dwelling place in women and women will find a dwelling place in men. God, Adam, Eve, and all the things of creation will intermingle together in harmony and joy.
THE ABSOLUTE LAW OF GOD
In the Unification Church, who first started using the term “human responsibility”? I did not create the concept of human responsibility, I discovered it. Before I discovered it, did the concept exist or not? Yes, it did, from the very beginning of creation. This is one of the permanent laws that were installed on the day of creation and will remain for the rest of eternity. Have you Unificationists been thinking about this? Have you taken it seriously? I’m sure some of you have even forgotten the term “human responsibility.” But this is the absolute law of God, and unless you fulfill this law you have no way to get into heaven. You have a craving to fill your requirement of food and sleep every day of your life, but even greater than those requirements is the requirement of human responsibility.
Do you think I just sat down one day and the word came to me? “Oh. Human responsibility. Sounds very good’.’ Or do you think I discovered it through incredible ordeals, struggles, and confrontations with Satan? Satan didn’t want anybody to discover it, because he knew once it was discovered, the satanic world would start to crumble. Satan protected and hid this concept, keeping it beneath mountains and dirt and trees. It was hidden so deep it was not easy for any man to discover it.
Without fulfilling this law of human responsibility you cannot come into the direct dominion of God. Therefore, in the Unification Church, our goal is to become men and women who fulfill human responsibility. That should become our life goal. When you have children, you do not want your children to say, “You did not fulfill your parental role. Why did you let me turn out like this? Why did you neglect me, and why didn’t you fulfill your human responsibility?” If that is what is going to happen, you have no reason to bear children. Without fulfilling human responsibility, you have nowhere to take your wife and child. You have to turn back.
All you blessed couples-if you disregard God and disregard the law and heavenly principle, the only place you deserve is the dungeons of hell. You may protest, “Oh, I am a Moonie. I am a Unification Church member!” However, only upon completion of your responsibility can you claim your rights and privileges. You are all trying to claim and insist upon your own point of view, but you can only do that upon the completion of human responsibility. Otherwise, you will not even have a platform to stand on to make your claim.
WHY GOD IS RESERVING JUDGMENT
Immoral Americans of today, with their free sex and free lifestyle, may wonder why they should be bound to such a rigid rule. “I want to live just as I please. I am a free man and I can do anything I choose. I want to enjoy life.” Coming out of that culture and then trying to practice this principle and follow me and become worthy of being a Unification Church member is very difficult. America has a population of 240 million people. None of them are worthy of being praised by God or are able to say that their human responsibility has been fulfilled. This nation is like Sodom and Gomorrah. Two hundred forty million Americans deserve God’s judgment. God is reserving judgment only because the Moonies who follow me say, “Father, give us time. We shall, in due course, fulfill our responsibility’.’ That is the only reason why God is reserving judgment.
When you graduate from a university, you have to fulfill a certain amount of credits, and you have to accumulate them in four years. Otherwise, you won’t graduate. Going the heavenward path is almost like working toward a degree; you have to get the right amount of credits. Human responsibility is heavenly law. Would you like to live under it or on top of it? You have to live on top of human responsibility. A person at any stage lower than that is a human trash can and belongs in hell. This is not conceptual-this is a logical conclusion.
You’ve been living a Moonie’s life in the Unification Church for many years. But during those years you have been creating a miserable pattern: Instead of succeeding, you’ve been failing. Your tradition is all mixed up and confused. Once you have completed human responsibility, is hell still there? No. If human responsibility is completed, you enter the direct dominion of God. No satanic power can come in. Only in that situation can you use the word “ideal”. That alone is the ideal situation.
Have you thought about this? You take it so lightly. You think, “Well, it sounds good, it sounds very logical;’ but you don’t take it into your heart. This is a law you must observe day by day. Without accomplishing human responsibility, love and every other beautiful word has no meaning. True love, true family, True Parents-every heavenly accomplishment, every heavenly goal-is bound to human responsibility. True Parents are there, true family is there, true husband and wife are there, true love is there, true heaven is there. Everything is achieved when human responsibility is achieved, not before. So unless you go beyond that level, where are you? What is your position? Have you been below human responsibility or on top of it? You have not yet crossed over that hill. You have been in the below position. Therefore, the first thing you must do is find out your exact position.
SATAN WILL NOT LET GO EASILY
God and Satan always label everything. “This is mine, this is yours. Satan, you take this one, I’ll take this one.” They label according to only one criterion-whether a person’s human responsibility has been accomplished. Human responsibility means fulfilling the vertical relationship between God and man. Then and only then can the horizontal relationship between husband and wife begin. Human responsibility does not mean worrying about whether you have money or honor or are doing this or that mundane thing. That is not what I am talking about.
Everyone is violating the law of human responsibility. Who is the guardian of the door to the Kingdom of Heaven? Human responsibility is the guard at the door. That is the certificate. Without having that particular certificate signed, no one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Not one individual in the fallen world has ever deserved the Kingdom of Heaven. In order to open up this gate, God has been working all this time, doing the work of restoration, starting with Moses and Jesus and going all the way up to the time of the Second Advent. All this arduous work means that God has been opening the gate so that everybody will be able to pass through it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Both God and Satan take this very seriously. Even if all the bases for Satan’s power are taken away from him, he will not easily give up his hold on human responsibility. Religious people who believe they will ultimately enter heaven will be demolished if they do not fulfill their human responsibility. You cannot swap human responsibility for any price. Even if a person sacrifices himself a tremendous amount, Satan cannot just release him and say, “Oh, okay, that’s all right. Go ahead. God, you can claim him’.’ No way. Satan has been holding tight onto human responsibility all this time. But I am bringing human responsibility out of Satan’s domain so that his hold on it will be completely destroyed. Human responsibility is now in our domain; we can go beyond it, above it. Now we have a weapon to destroy Satan logically, with the truth. We can say to Satan, “This is what you are, Satan. This is your true identity. We know you and your crime, and we have a weapon with which to destroy your satanic realm.”
Human responsibility is a narrow gate. Even God cannot widen it. He has to keep the door narrow, but everyone is expected to go through it. Even God cannot make an exception, not in a million years. God did not commit sin. Human beings did. But God is taking up the responsibility. God knows that Adam and Eve entered into false parenthood; therefore, it is God’s responsibility to restore His son and daughter into true parenthood. For that reason, God is taking upon Himself the responsibility and doing it a million times over.
You’ve been living as if in a void, with vacant eyes, blind. No one has taken human responsibility seriously as an individual, as a family, as a tribe. You always think, “Oh, it’s cold outside, I just don’t want to go out today. I’m hungry, I’m sick, I have a headache, I have to take my baby to the hospital’.’ I see here a fake assembly, not an honest and decent one.
Everywhere I go I find the same attitude. I go to the Korean leaders and they say, “Father, this is just impossible. Nobody has ever done this. We cannot do it.” Then I say: “Do it this way, follow me this way.” I have to lead them every step of the way. That is how everything I want done is finally accomplished. The time has come now, after 15 years in America, when the eminent scholars and professors who come to the science conferences are saying to me, “Yes, I will do it;’ no matter how famous they are. What about you?
HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY IS YOURS
Whose responsibility is human responsibility? Am I responsible for everything? Do I have to bear the cross? Human responsibility is yours. You need to fulfill it. Since you have not been able to bear that burden, I have taken it over. Most of the way, I have carried it for you.
This incredible, insidious battle is going on behind the scenes. God grabs each one of you and offers you as a sacrifice toward the fulfillment of human responsibility. You can’t just think, ‘Tm a member of the Unification Church and I’m in good standing, and oh yes, heaven is mine. I already bought heaven’.’ Japanese members may be thinking, “Well, we’re special. We work very hard. Japan is doing very well. We are following the providence of True Parents and we suffer so much, we are in a special category. We will enter into heaven.” Not at all.
Think about it. If you truly feel that you have fulfilled human responsibility and you go out and tell the satanic world but still receive persecution, there is a contradiction there. Would anybody oppose you if you had completed your human responsibility? No. That’s the truth. But I am still receiving persecution. Why is that?
This barrier of human responsibility cannot be jumped over all at once. It is divided into eight different stages, from the individual level to the level of the family, clan, tribe, society, nation, world, and cosmos. I have to go through each step, one by one. What stage am I at now? The time of persecution is virtually over and the time for a universal welcome for True Parents is at hand.
It is like a dream that the CAUSA USA volunteers could get 10 million signatures. Four years ago such a thing was unthinkable. This happened less than one year after I set the universal condition by suffering at Danbury.[1] What do you think will happen in the future? Will more and more people persecute us? (No.) Who alone in the Unification Church can go forth with his human responsibility on the verge of being completely fulfilled? (Father.) How did I do that? Did I do it by receiving all kinds of praise and welcome, all kinds of glory? Did I eat and sleep and play as much as I wanted to? By doing it that way, can you accomplish human responsibility?
God gave the world the most incredible opportunity to fulfill this huge responsibility all at once, right after World War II. However, the world did not receive me. I suffered 40 more years, all alone, paying all the indemnity. Christianity at that time was in a position to accept me and
my role of unifying the world and was to do the heaven-building here on earth, but Christianity failed to do so. For that reason, I myself rebuilt the Christian foundation, in 40 years.
WHY AM I STILL FIGHTING?
In order to come this far, I entered prison many times. When God installed me in this mission here on earth as True Parents, God did not mean for me to suffer. Actually, if everything had gone right, the whole dispensational scheme would have been completed when I was 40, and thereafter Mother and I would have received glory. Now I am nearing 70 and I am still fighting, still suffering, still receiving persecution. Why? Because of the failure of Christianity and the American nation.
I came to this foreign country, sojourned in a strange land, and gave my entire heart. I was hurt so much by this nation and these people. Don’t you think I could be harboring certain feelings toward the American people and the American nation, even though I never speak about them? Under normal circumstances, if anyone had that much evil done to him, he would turn around with a knife or a gun and take revenge. But I am entirely different. I swallowed all those feelings of hurt and I am continuing to try to save this nation, simply because I know about human responsibility. I want to avenge myself with true love, loving America, saving America.
Shall we be serious? Shall we choose to do nothing else but go through human responsibility? You really don’t know this, but I have been bearing the cross all this time on your behalf. You have all kinds of time-you play, you eat anything you like, you sleep all you want. I don’t have that kind of time. You don’t know about my personal life. I never show it in public, but I have shed millions of tears, agonizing over the situation of the world. I have shed gallons of sweat, laboring day in and day out. The time will come when history will eventually reveal what kind of life I have lived. Do you think that once you really know the facts and truth about me you will be able to raise your head? None of you will be able to open your mouth to even try to assert your situation, your excuses, or your complaints.
In order for True Parents to emerge, Cain and Abel must be united into one. On that foundation alone, True Parents can appear. You, the children, are supposed to take care of the restoration of the Cain and Abel providence. But since you were not doing it well, I had to go down to your level, take up your mission upon my own shoulders, and fulfill it. When the children are bad, the blame always goes to the parents. Afterwards you might say to me, “Well, Father, you fulfilled it for me. Give it back to me free’.’ Would you be that shameless?
You know that I have fulfilled human responsibility on your behalf, but in order for this fulfillment to become your own, you have to set a certain condition. Otherwise, you will not be able to inherit it. Do you think parents want to pass their inheritance down only piece by piece? Isn’t the parental heart so deep that they want to give their children the full amount all at once?
I will declare to the world, “I fulfilled all human responsibility. I finished it. Now anybody who wants to receive it, you do it too’.’ That is the battle at hand.
There are certain laws for offering sacrifices. There are conditions that have to be met in order for the sacrifices to be acceptable. There is also a specific condition of time that should elapse. For 40 years I was the person who offered the sacrifice, and at the same time I myself was the sacrifice. All the satanic world was trying to block me from fulfilling this in 40 years’ time. The satanic disturbances and obstacles have been almost insurmountable. Satan knows that once I succeed in this fulfillment of human responsibility, it is final. Satan wanted to block every stage of the game, until Satan came all the way up and pushed me into Danbury prison. That was the final stage.
I am bearing the cross of 4 billion people’s fate upon my shoulders. In order to pay the indemnity for that incredible burden of sin, I have been in and out of prison six times. Who sent me to prison? In a way, you did. The world population did. There is a certain debt that has to be paid in terms of human responsibility on all levels, from the individual through the world levels. In order to pay the debt, I did it all alone, by myself. I want you to know that unless I release this inheritance to you, no one will even come near to entering the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you follow? I have to liberate you. Without being liberated by me, no one will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Even if you suffer in prison yourself, even die in a prison cell, it doesn’t make any difference unless you receive this liberation.
There is a certain debt that has to be paid in terms of human responsibility on all levels, from the individual through the world level. In order to pay the debt, I did it all alone, by myself. I want you to know that unless I release this inheritance to you, no one will even come near to entering the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you follow? I have to liberate you. Without being liberated by me, no one will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Even if you suffer in prison yourself, even die in a prison cell, it doesn’t make any difference unless you receive this liberation.
In order to be liberated, the first condition is that no one should ever complain. Complaint is unacceptable. There is no way you can receive liberation while complaining. You should be obedient to the end, for as long as there is a road of providence. I came to this country 15 years ago, and all this time I have been ridiculed and persecuted. But I did it voluntarily. The entire world’s persecution cannot prevail over me; I have accepted the condition to fulfill human responsibility on a worldwide scale at all costs.
For those of you who cannot fulfill human responsibility, there is no room for you in the Kingdom of Heaven. All this time, who has accomplished human responsibility?
(Father.) And what position am I in? (True Parents.) Actually, the True Parents are not supposed to suffer. Mother and I left the position of True Parents and entered into the children’s position and took the children’s burden upon our own shoulders. Why did I have to suffer for 40 years? Because I was trying to take human responsibility away from Satan. None of you know how I fulfilled the conditions at each stage up to the eighth stage, but unless you understand this and follow my tradition, all your effort will be in vain. Nothing will come of it. You must learn from me the exact way to fulfill human responsibility, and then you have to do it. Without doing it there is no fulfillment.
ONLY BY TRUE LOVE
Do you think you can buy the fulfillment of human responsibility with US dollars? If you gave heaven and earth as a payment, you could not buy it. You can fulfill human responsibility by only one thing: by possessing true love. With true love alone human responsibility is fulfilled.
Satan fears true love. Do you think true love fears Satan? No. Is the person who has true love afraid of prison? Those who go to prison have no problem if they go for the sake of true love. I entered prison six times. How many times have you been in and out of prison? How many of you are thinking, “Well, Father went six times, so I should go for three days, or at least for two hours”? In reality, you should do much more than that. Because of your own failure and your own sin, True Parents bore the burden on your behalf. In order to show your appreciation and gratitude that is due them, you should do more than True Parents have done.
I have a lot of enemies, but I have no time to remember those enemies. I do a lot of good deeds but then I forget about them in the next moment. If I accomplished certain things in a village, I later may walk by that village as if nothing ever happened there. I never think, “I sure did a great job there. Bravo to me!” I never have that arrogant feeling simply because I always see that when one stage is over, another stage must be reached. When that stage is over, there is yet another stage. It is an endless process, an uphill battle all the way. I know the reality that unless you reach the worldwide and universal dispensational levels, the rest of your accomplishments by themselves amount to nothing.
Think of what an extraordinary man in history you have met. But this man is not just a guest that you meet today and tomorrow have nothing to do with. This extraordinary hero is the eternal True Parent. This time of True Parents comes only once. It has never come before and it will never come again. It is an incredible blessing to be born at this time, to be a contemporary of the True Parents, to receive education from the True Parents directly, to breathe the same air, to receive the same sunshine, and to enjoy food and water at the same time. This is the greatest blessing any mortal man could dream of.
WORD AND DEED MUST COME TOGETHER
Among men born of women, there was nobody greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater that he. You are spiritually receiving the greatest benefit of all, but here on earth while serving True Parents you look like the least. However, by meeting and serving True Parents you are suddenly becoming historical and extraordinary men and women. You must come to that realization. This is the great blessing that the members of the Unification Church can cherish. Some of you just say with your lips, “Oh, True Parents, we love you, we love you’.’ But in your heart, you’re trying to give more suffering and more burden to True Parents. This is unfair. Your deeds and your words must come together. You like to be inspired, but you don’t want to do the deeds. This is an incompatible, paradoxical situation. You want to see me, you want to meet me, you want to receive my love, but you don’t want to follow my words. This is not fair.
There is a heavenly dispensational pattern to everything. The pattern was set by Jacob and later followed by Moses, by Jesus, and by me. You too should follow my course; there is no way out. Those who say, “Oh, I don’t want to bother with following Father’s pattern;’ pack up and get out of this place. You have nothing to do with me. If, after all these things I have taught you, you cannot follow these conditions, when you enter the spirit world your ancestors will accuse you. You will be bound by your own deeds and your own words. Don’t you think the spirit world is listening and following my words? If the spirit world is following my pattern, shouldn’t you also follow my pattern? You are the representatives of Adam and Eve, and the spirit world is in the archangel position. You are in a position to command the spirit world; you should be moving ahead of the spirit world.
Why do you pray every day in the name of True Parents? In that name your prayer can be listened to. That is the most victorious name in the universe-the name that can conquer the satanic world. Have you not only been praying in the True Parents’ name but praising True Parents’ name? Have you glorified True Parents? In order to glorify the True Parents, you should bear the cross. That means you are willing to say, “On behalf of True Father, I will take up the cross’.’ I know that you don’t even bear your own cross, so how can you bear the cross of True Parents?
You may be thinking, “Oh, I wish Unificationism gave me a little more freedom. I wish Father would let me do the things I like to do’.’ Who is the king Sa tan in our world today? Selfishness and manifestations of self-centeredness are the king Satan. If everybody else is working hard and suffering, do you think, “Oh, I don’t have to do that. I’ll just let them do it and I’ll relax and have a good time”? Don’t you think your conscience would be bothered?
THE COVENANT OF HOME CHURCH
What kind of gift would you like to receive from me? The most important gift you should want to receive from me is liberation through human responsibility. What if I sent you and your husband to Africa for the rest of your life to serve in one of those poverty-stricken nations? If that was the only way to receive liberation, would you do it? What about living like a beggar? It is not the role of a king. If you are treated like a king or queen, you’re not making the right conditions. That’s not suffering. If you say, “No, no, Father, I don’t like that kind of human responsibility, give me something a little better;’ that proves you are still chained to Satan’s side. In order to receive liberation through human responsibility so that you can be completely unchained from Satan, I have set up one conditional mission for all of you to follow. That is nothing other than the ideal home church.
What is home church? I gave you a motto once:
Home church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven. Home church is the place where you can receive liberation. I taught you so many times that without going through the home church providence, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the covenant between God, Satan, and myself. For anybody who fulfills his home church responsibility, Satan will have to sign a certificate and send it to True Parents. True Parents will approve it and that person will be entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven.
When you are in your 360-home area, if everybody is happy to see you and welcomes you and asks you to come in, that means you have become their master. Only those of you who can love the people with a parental heart will be received like that. That is the criterion for accomplishing the home church providence-whether you are welcomed into the 360 homes. If the people love you more than they love their own parents, more than their own husbands and wives, and even more than their own children, then you are worthy.
Where shall we begin home church? It has already started in the United States. This is the ideal country to start because in every level of society there is alienation and separation. There is no love here. There is no true parental love, no true conjugal love, no true children’s love, nothing. Everyone is starving to death for love. If you become the personification of love, you will be received like God, like a true parent. So far, home church has been difficult because I was still being persecuted on the national level. But times have changed. Ten million people have signed the CAUSA USA petition. In this kind of atmosphere, the home church providence will be much easier.
Ten million people now echo these ideas, and just three percent of that is 300,000. Roughly 300,000 people can totally cover this nation in a huge network. When I was in Danbury, I sent out Principle tapes, a letter, and a book of my sermons to 350,000 clergymen in this country. I would like these ministers to become part of the central mission, to be connecting points in the home church providence.
When America enters into the home church era and is entirely covered by the home church providence, what do you think will happen in the rest of the world? Will they follow the home church pattern or not? (Yes.)
If you take an examination, someone else has to give you the test. You cannot create your own test. For the home church examination, who should give you the test? True Parents. The examination given by the True Parents has eternal standing. If you pass, you will go upward· all the way. If you fail, you will have flunked for eternity. This is very serious. You have been doing home church sporadically, but you should know that when 1988 comes, all the Unification members will be judged by what kind of home church they have developed. Your home church record will come with you. Without a home church area and accomplishment, you simply will not be able to see True Parents. No matter what you do in the Unification Church, if you are without a home church background you won’t be accepted.
What is going to happen in the future? Eventually, there will be no more areas left in the United States. All people will have to get an area, so they will volunteer to go to Africa to get their 360 homes. People will flock into China. There are a lot of people there-one billion. Truly, the whole world will be knit together by home church, and eventually the Kingdom of Heaven will be ushered in through the home church providence.
RECOVER THE THIRD LEVEL
I spoke about home church in 1978, and I have been speaking about it now for eight years. From 1987 on, we will renew our dedication. A new beginning will be set on the first day of 1987. Those who think, “Yes, it is a definite necessity. Yes, Father, I know it and I feel it;’ raise your hands, please. Everybody wants to go to heaven, that’s for sure. Nobody wants to miss the boat.
I have been suffering simply because of human responsibility. The hill of human responsibility has to be climbed. The restoration process goes from the enemy position to the servant-of-servants’ position, to the servant’s position, to the adopted son’s position, to the son’s position, and finally to the True Parents’ position. When you start out and go all the way to the bottom first, Satan simply cannot follow you down there. Satan has a limit. All this time, Satan has always been with you. But if you go down, down, down, Satan will say, “Where are you going?” You will say, “I’m going further down. Bye-bye!” Satan will have to say, “I cannot follow you any more’.’ Satan is arrogant; he has a limit as to how humble he can be. But you are limitless, so if you go down to the bottom you will be separated from Satan. Then you can go back up to stage one.
At the individual and family levels Satan will follow you again, but Satan can only come up to the third level, the level of the tribe, and then no higher. The reason is that from the third level on, True Parents have declared victory; True Parents have liquidated the satanic elements. There is no way satanic elements can creep in above this point. This is the limit. Jesus’ crucifixion came at the tribal level; Satan entered and completely demolished the dispensation at this level. Therefore, the blessing must come upon the tribal level. This is the level that you have to pay indemnity to recover. Above the tribal level, True Parents have conquered all. I came all the way up from the bottom, going through the individual, family, tribal, national, world, and universal levels. Once I covered them all the way up to the top, the resistance and the rejection were eliminated and the welcoming element set in. Instead of rejecting me, the world is now ready to welcome and embrace me.
Two hundred volumes of my speeches are now being published in Korea, but that only scratches the surface. There are hundreds more volumes to come some day, all the words I have spoken over the years. So you have a lot to study. Now Book 34 has just been completed. If you buy a first edition you will have an archive edition to pass on to your children and your grandchildren as an incredible treasure. You should buy all of these volumes in the original language, Korean. So you have to know the language. When you study this material you will receive all the elements of truth you will need for an entire lifetime. The Japanese members are buying 4,000 volumes each time another volume is published. How many books does the United States buy? That means you are not really Moonies, because Moonies need to hear my words, spoken in the mother tongue.
THE POTENTIAL IS OUT THERE
I want you to understand-no parents want their children to suffer. There is no such parent. Parents are always trying to take the suffering of their children upon their own shoulders. This is the parental heart. Therefore, what I am giving you today is the bare minimum you have to do to qualify for citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven.
One million people signed the CAUSA USA petition forms in the New York area. There are roughly 10 million people in New York, so that means one tenth of the population signed. So in your neighborhood, 36 homes are potentially ready to welcome the ideals of CAUSA. If there
are 4 people per household, that means that 144 people are prepared. That potential is out there.
I came to America to save this country. The number-one condition for 10 million people to sign was the unity between the clergy and the Unification Church, because Cain and Abel must be united in order for True Parents to come.
Who shall be the eldest brother? In the fallen world, the elder soo is always Cain. But in the restored world, the elder son should be the number-one pillar of the dispensation. The Unification Church is the restored world, so you shall be in the elder son’s position. You have to make a tradition of unification; you have to create a standard and a foundation. From now on, you must make your foundation as an elder son on the heavenly side. What is the elder son’s tradition in the Unification Church? Home church. That is your tradition. Start out by doing home church yourself and then teach others.
There are all kinds of people in every neighborhood-ministers, generals, government officials, congressmen, senators. Everybody is included. In order to deal with these powerful people we must be united on one common goal. I want them to know that Moonies are not weak, trivial people.
HOME CHURCH NETWORK
From tomorrow morning on, we will have a new greeting amongst ourselves. In the morning we will say, “Good morning! Going home church!” In the afternoon we will say, “Good afternoon! Going home church!” And in the evening, “Good night! Going home church!” Satan works at night, so we’ve got to work at night as well. The year 1987 will absolutely be the home church year.
Through home church, you can restore up to the tribal level and become the tribal messiah. Once you reach the tribal messiah level, you can make it to the national, world, and cosmic levels immediately. This is the True Parents’ level. All the future leaders of the Unification movement will be those who are champions of home church. They will become the home church leaders.
There is already a solid home church foundation in Brazil. I introduced the home church providence there several years ago, and I encouraged them to do some kind of service project. In all 24 states, bread factories were established. Every morning from four o’clock on, tons of bread are baked. All Unification members in Brazil, from the leaders on down, hand carry and distribute the bread throughout each district. That’s the way they do home church. Not only do they feed them bread-Jesus said you cannot live by bread alone-but they give them truth too, and true love. This is how Brazil has become the most successful home church country.
How can you get rid of Satan? This is the way, through home church. You should be doing something in your area every day, regularly; you should have some kind of duty that requires you to go out to the people. In New York we have two newspapers, the New York City Tribune and Noticias del Mundo. You should feel that the Tribune and Noticias are your own newspapers. You should be able to get at least 120 subscriptions in your area. That way we can truly bring a new spiritual element to New York City.
At this moment, I am asking Rev. Kwak to be responsible for the home church providence, including everyone in the New York area. We will tighten up the previous organization and tighten up the providential home church system in New York.
The home church network will become an economic, fundraising network. Economic activities should be done through groups and organizations, not individuals. My hope is that those who do home church successfully will also be successful economically. They will become recognized local community leaders.
Yes, money is needed. But more important is human responsibility. You’ve got to grab it. You’ve got to hold onto it. You know that very clearly now, don’t you? Everybody inspire each other with home church! Do not be individualistic. Bring out everybody, encourage each other. “Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go out to home church!”
You have no idea how lonely I have been. Even Mother doesn’t know, even my own children don’t know. The only ones who know are God and myself. I don’t want you to be indebted to me, but I want to be indebted to you.
I am moving on to another level of the dispensation. Home church is your level. If you do home church well, all will be accomplished according to God’s wishes. You will become great men and women, historical champions. All these things can be accomplished through the fulfillment of the ideal home church. There’s nothing more important-not your own parents, not your own children, not your own husband or wife. Nothing is more important at this time than to fulfill the ideal home church.
[1] Father was released from prison on August 20, 1985, but he had to fulfill a special 4-month condition until December 20, 1985, in order to successfully conclude his 40-year course.